Reflexivity and the perpetuation of inequality in the cultural sector: half awake in a fake empire?

Rethinking and Advancing a ‘Bottom-up’ Approach to Cultural Participation of Persons with Disabilities as Key to Realising Inclusive Equality

“…Academic discussion of access and of barriers to access and inclusion exists alongside scholarship that looks at the transformative function of cultural participation. A lively scholarly debate on audience-development initiatives exists, including arguments that they can perform a 'legitimating function' by discursively suggesting that an undemocratic cultural policy is in the process of being democratised in light of how people who attend the subsidised arts are predominantly a particular demographic, supported by taxpayers who subsidise but do not consume the arts (Hadley, 2021, p. 233;Hadley, Heidelberg and Belfiore, 2022). This literature, while not focusing specifically on disability, emphasises that cultural sectors are still not fully representative of their consumers and the wider society (Hadley, Heidelberg and Belfiore, 2022).…”

“…A lively scholarly debate on audience-development initiatives exists, including arguments that they can perform a 'legitimating function' by discursively suggesting that an undemocratic cultural policy is in the process of being democratised in light of how people who attend the subsidised arts are predominantly a particular demographic, supported by taxpayers who subsidise but do not consume the arts (Hadley, 2021, p. 233;Hadley, Heidelberg and Belfiore, 2022). This literature, while not focusing specifically on disability, emphasises that cultural sectors are still not fully representative of their consumers and the wider society (Hadley, Heidelberg and Belfiore, 2022). While change may be happening in the cultural sectors, it is taking place in a slow and piecemeal fashion, largely due to the efforts of 'minoritized groups' (Hadley, Heidelberg, Belfiore, 2022, p. 16).…”

What comes after fields, capitals, habitus? Suggestions for future cultural consumption research in Australia

“…It is increasingly evident that cultural production and the so-called creative industries are dominated by the privileged (Eikhof & Warhurst, 2013), especially those who are white and male (Idriss, 2018;Luckman et al, 2020). The sectors themselves are mired in the rhetorical promotion of 'fakequity' (Hadley et al, 2022) rather than addressing issues of social justice and inequality. Welfare systems that were once a key life support for struggling artists, including for some of those listed as scales in the book, such as Jimmy Barnes and AC/DC, are harder to access and punitively administered.…”

Participatory knowledge co-production to activate culture in the development of small cities and rural areas in Portugal

“…The article’s framework and methodology were developed through a reflexive process in which the author-researchers considered the relational and intersubjective processes they were involved in within the two action-research projects, giving new meaning to the processes involved (Finlay, 2002; Hadley et al , 2022). The article analyses the projects’ approaches from the perspective of how they encouraged and facilitated the participating social economy organizations to identify and use place-embedded knowledge and local cultural assets to develop new initiatives that contribute to local development and community benefit.…”